12.1 Final Project Topic

My final Project Topic will be "French Fairy Tales". I will plan a unit on French Fairy tales, specifically Beauty and the Beast.

12.3 Creating the Final Project

  • Name of Lesson/Topic: Exploring French Fairy Tales
  • Essential Questions: How do French Fairy tales compare to the version each of us a re familiar with?
  • State frameworks: Content, Literacy, & TechnologyContent: 1.9, 1.11, 1.15, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15, 2.17, 3.17, 3.20, 4.17, 5.16, 6.9, 8.3
    Technology literacy: 1.32, 1.33, 1.34, 2.9, 2.10, 3.8,
  • What will your objectives be - content objectives, literacy objectives, and technology objectives?
    • Content Objectives:
      - Students will be able to read and analyze several French fairy tales.
      - Students will compare French fairy tales with fairy tales from their own culture
      - Students will be able to talk about and describe the past

      Techonology Literacy Objectives:
      - Students will be able to obtain information from a class website (wikispace)
      - Students will be able to develop their own wikispace in order to share their work and collaborate with peers and the teacher
      - Students will be able to collaborate with one another outside of class on the internet using all four language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking
      - Students will be able to use search engines to obtain appropriate information on the internet
  • How will assess student outcomes?
    • Clipboarding
    • Puzzle work in groups
    • class discussion
    • Checking student wikispaces
    • Checking voicestream assignments
    • Ticket-to-Leave
    • final presentation
  • What activities will you plan to achieve expected outcomes?
    • We will practice 21st Century skills when we are in the language lab. Students will be able to watch demonstrations on how to use the technology required for class and will be able to practice/create while teacher circulates.
    • students will be asked to interact with the material and especially the texts we read through collaborative activities such as think/write/pair/share and puzzle. They will also be asked to interact with the text and each other outside of class using their wikispaces, voicethread, and other online discussion boards
    • students will compare and contrast new material with previous knowledge
  • What strategies will you embed in the activities to help students reach the lesson objectives?
    • Literacy strategies such as using an online dictionary, wordle, collaborating with peers
    • Discussion and comprehension strategies such as think/write/pair/share, puzzles, voicethread
  • Are you integrating 21st Century skills and/or technology in your lesson? I am integrating the following 21st Century Skills: Wikispaces, Wordle, Wordreference.com, Voicethread, prezi, glogster
  • Can you find any extremely engaging material (such as a virtual tour or experience) on the web related to your unit that might be useful? There are trailers from both the classic version and the disney version on youtube, websites on LaFontaine and Jean Cocteau, including videos on teachertube
  • Where will the space for inquiry be made? In other words, at what point in the lesson will you allow students to follow an area of interest within your given topic? They will be using a virtual notebook and at any time they will be encouraged to follow their interests, but they will really be allowed to follow their interests during the final project.
  • When do you plan to teach this lesson? Mid-Late September / Early October

Final Project Lesson Plan!